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		<title>A bit about poverty</title>
		<link>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/07/13/a-bit-about-poverty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While we&#8217;re on the subject of poverty, seeing as we have a tag devoted to the subject, and the current government has so keenly focussed on addressing it, we thought it might be useful to understand the concept of poverty. There&#8217;s a pretty solid backgrounder up here: http://www.thesouthasian.org/archives/2009/poverty_backgrounder.html and maybe it will form the basis [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hamaracongress.com&amp;blog=7341776&amp;post=508&amp;subd=votecongress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Grim reality of India&#8217;s poverty dip</title>
		<link>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/07/12/grim-reality-of-indias-poverty-dip/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 06:19:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Official statistics might show that poverty is reducing but that story might not go down well with people who seem to teeter obviously on the brink of poverty, like daily wage workers. In fact, The current estimate shows that even while poverty is lessening, it is becoming more chronic in states with a history of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hamaracongress.com&amp;blog=7341776&amp;post=506&amp;subd=votecongress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Drawing a line under poverty in India</title>
		<link>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/07/10/drawing-a-line-under-poverty-in-india/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:49:11 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Reforms]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Congress government has long been acknowledged as a government for the &#8216;aam admi&#8217;, but how do we understand poverty alleviation schemes and the basis on which they have been constructed? In this article, the Wall Street Journal&#8217;s New Delhi Bureau Chief Paul Beckett examines what poor people need and how those needs might be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hamaracongress.com&amp;blog=7341776&amp;post=501&amp;subd=votecongress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BIG B(ORE)</title>
		<link>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/07/06/big-bore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[-By SANJAY JHA You have to just look a few centimeters above your regular vision when driving down , and you will see a galaxy of smart-suited oddballs interspersed with a few women in Prada-like executive dressing standing in a well choreographed semi-circle , looking down at you with the cocky condescension of experts who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hamaracongress.com&amp;blog=7341776&amp;post=493&amp;subd=votecongress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The middle class leaves BJP behind</title>
		<link>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/06/30/the-middle-class-leaves-bjp-behind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BJP had seemed as though it was the party for the new middle classes: rejecting Nehruvian socialism for conspicuous consumption and clasping the &#8216;BJP to its collective bosom&#8217;, says Vir Sanghvi. But now the BJP is being torn apart by an existential crisis and the middle class seems relieved by the Congress Party&#8217;s victory: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hamaracongress.com&amp;blog=7341776&amp;post=473&amp;subd=votecongress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Singh&#8217;s 100-day plan to revolutionize India</title>
		<link>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/06/18/singhs-100-day-plan-to-revolutionize-india/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:18:01 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Post Election]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A decisive victory has PM Manmohan Singh headed straight for the jugular of antiquated policies, so to speak, in an attempt to choke off their air supply. Infusing fresh breath into Indian politics with reforms and new schemes designed to ensure transparency and distribute wealth, PM Singh is being ambitious, and he may well be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hamaracongress.com&amp;blog=7341776&amp;post=444&amp;subd=votecongress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Quiet Revolutionary</title>
		<link>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/06/10/the-quiet-revolutionary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:17:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Newsweek celebrates Rahul Gandhi and takes a look at his ideas and his politics. Rahul&#8217;s current views on the economy seem to owe to these tours. Broadly speaking, he is pro-market, owing in part to his time at Monitor, but he insists that growth should provide opportunities for the poor. &#8220;What is the difference between [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hamaracongress.com&amp;blog=7341776&amp;post=400&amp;subd=votecongress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Patience in the trenches</title>
		<link>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/06/01/patience-in-the-trenches/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A dignified young man, is how Tehelka&#8217;s Executive Editor Shoma Chaudhury describes him. Quiet, thoughtful, measured and at the epicenter of a &#8220;whirlwind of approval&#8221;. He was the party&#8217;s star campaigner and now his party is reaping the dividend of his measured decisions &#8211; to invest in the party&#8217;s future, encourage real talent identified by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hamaracongress.com&amp;blog=7341776&amp;post=367&amp;subd=votecongress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UPA&#8217;s challenge: rural government reform</title>
		<link>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/05/28/upas-challenge-rural-government-reform/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 14:32:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The media have gone overboard in ascribing the election victory to schemes such as the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, says Mihir Shah. These ascriptions might erroneously suggest new directions for Government, he says, and goes on to examine the issue of rural reform. A serious problem created by facile electoral analyses is that they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hamaracongress.com&amp;blog=7341776&amp;post=342&amp;subd=votecongress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Congress back to left</title>
		<link>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/05/25/congress-back-to-left/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 07:32:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Socialism is in the party&#8217;s DNA and in the very being of the Nehru-Gandhi family says Sidharth Bhatia in the DNA (Daily News and Analysis). The Congress is now going back to its Socialist roots. Investors would do well to prepare themselves for large-scale spending on the social sector, usually perceived as a waste of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hamaracongress.com&amp;blog=7341776&amp;post=337&amp;subd=votecongress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unexpectedly, another tryst with destiny</title>
		<link>http://hamaracongress.com/2009/05/22/unexpectedly-another-tryst-with-destiny/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 10:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[- by RAJEEV GOWDA In 1947, Jawaharlal Nehru spoke of India’s Tryst with Destiny and proclaimed: A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new …. Sixty two years on, quietly, without fanfare or revolution, without the Congress or the nation expecting it, we have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hamaracongress.com&amp;blog=7341776&amp;post=318&amp;subd=votecongress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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